Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
Quotes to Explore
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.
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I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
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When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.
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It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
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As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
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Win pretty, win ugly, just win.
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There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.
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The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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Some people aren't comfortable with being comfortable. Some people really want to be pushed and find people that they can pull something out of you that you didn't know you had, and you can scare yourself.
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Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an integrated reality, rooted in nature.
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Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
